Digital Accessibility Ethics

Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities. The book introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework – an action-oriented, three-part tool designed to influence, change, and disrupt patterns of exclusion with values, actions, and questions. 39 authors from 10 countries and one commonwealth, the majority of whom are disabled, apply this Framework across technologies, sectors, and countries. The editors and authors – with over 600 years of combined accessibility and disability advocacy experience -- aim to build a world that recognizes disabled people’s right to fully participate in every facet of digital life. And to offer organizations an ethics lens to help eliminate the financial, legal, privacy, safety, and other risks and harms of disability exclusion. Through stories, recommendations, strategies, and other guidance, the book looks at a wide range of topics through an ethics from gaming and smart cities to hackathons, procurement, and cybersecurity. From accessibility practitioner burnout, to robots, artificial intelligence, aerospace, design, healthcare, open s